Films are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood.

Some deeply untrusting actors - the kind that need to know exactly what's what and are completely insecure - might be quite good within the parameters of a certain sort of acting.

I am very happy to be part of European and world cinema as a British filmmaker.

I wonder if I would have been capable of producing anything if I worked in a more conventional way with a prewritten script, because I'm of the procrastinator class.

I've walked out of films. But for every film I've ever walked out of, I've probably walked out of 500 plays.

I've long since stopped worrying about how I'm portrayed in the press because ultimately it's not that important. Everyone who knows me knows I do what I do with the greatest integrity.

The notion that acting is simply about intuitively responding to situations the way you feel couldn't be farther away from how I ask actors to work.